2 wounded in officer-involved shooting

A San Diego police detective opened fire and wounded two people at an Encanto home Thursday as she and other narcotics officers were serving a warrant.

The shooting occurred about 7:45 a.m. at 64th Street and Akins Avenue.

A police narcotics team was at the residence to serve a warrant for drug sales and related activity, police homicide Lt. Jorge Duran said.

He said they knocked on a window of the home to notify people inside that they were there. A female detective looked in and saw a man stand up and get what she thought was a gun.

Feeling threatened, she fired several rounds through the window, striking the man in the legs, Duran said.

Police asked for cover from additional officers, and requested paramedics for the wounded man. He was taken to a hospital.

Several minutes later, a woman came out with a gunshot wound to one leg. She, too, was taken to a hospital, Duran said. He said it wasn’t clear where she was when the officer fired, and whether she was hit directly with a round or possibly by a ricochet.

Four other people who were in the home were escorted outside and detained.

Police surrounded the residence, then re-entered it shortly before 9 a.m. No one else was found inside the home.

Duran said a thorough search of the home had not yet been conducted, and he didn’t know if there was a gun inside.

Police Chief William Lansdowne came to the shooting scene, along with Assistant Chief Shelley Zimmerman, who was named Wednesday to replace Lansdowne when he retires Monday.

It was the fourth officer-involved shooting by San Diego police this year, including a man who was killed in Escondido and a man who was wounded in Mount Hope in January, and a man killed in downtown San Diego on Wednesday.

San Diego police were involved in 10 shootings last year, including six that were fatal.